After finishing a college course on Deadfire mechanics, I picked some mods that seem to improve gameplay experience without changing it too much. Could someone who has more experience with this game tell me if I am ok to go, or are some of them just not recommended for new players, conflict each other, are outdated or buggy, better alternatives exist, etc.
I am assuming there are no problems with these, but just in case: Enhanced User Interface, Character Creation More Colors, Enhanced companions portraits, Everyone's Two Cents, More Custom AI Conditions, Godlike rebalance from PoE2 Deadfire Tweaks.
Community Patch - looks really good. The modder poster on Nexus that they are planning an update soon, is there any more information about that on this forum? I am afraid that I start the playthrough and then a week later the update will drop and my ocd will compel me to restart the game.
Rymrgand's Complete Food Challenge (Prepared Meals Rule for Rymrgand's Challenge) - the only challenge I plan to play with is Rymrgand, seems like fun addition. Is it something I could reasonably handle, or would it require knowledge from previous playthroughts to complete?
Deadly Deadfire 4 - Difficulty Mod - if the progression is anything like PoE1 I would like to use Reduced XP. Not sure about other features, particularly the +2 boss level scaling, I am afraid of making the game impossible to beat without cheesing. I want to play on PotD difficulty, and aim for 100% completion.
And these are mods I saw recommended in a thread here, but myself am sceptical about:
Deadfire Combat Tweaks - no idea how these upset the game balance.
TT2 Unique Items Enchanced, Spoils of Caed Nua - according to mod description these items can be just bought from merchants. Is this something immersion breaking, are they overpowered for the level I could get them at, do they make other items obsolete? Or do merchant already sell item of comparable quality, and this just diversifies their wares?
FG Soulbound Upgrade - similar concern as previous item mods, is it OP or will it make other weapons in the game obsolete?
Also if you know any other mods you think I should use, please recommend. Thanks!